OCTOBER ...ITS FESTIVAL TIME !!!

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Beautiful painting again Pratim.

You have some super phrases Pratim...they match your talent of painting.

Gorgeous little bird - and beautifully designed and painted calendar. You must work phenomenally hard - your output is prodigious.

Thanks Carole Swingler maam ...<br />Thanks for compliments Fiona Phipps maam ...<br />I am honored Sir Robert Jones ... Thanks a lot ...

OCTOBER ...TIME FOR FESTIVALS!!!! FEEL FREE TO SHARE !!! INDIAN PITTA... (Pitta brachyura) is a medium-sized passerine bird. It breeds mainly in the sub-Himalayas and winters in southern India and Sri Lanka. These birds are found in thick undergrowth and are often more easily detected by their calls. The bird normally hops on the ground to forage and has been known to get trapped in ground traps meant for small mammals. It has been suggested that the width of the coronal stripe may differ in the sexes. Indian Pittas breed mainly in the Himalayan foothills from northern Pakistan in the west (Margalla hills) to at least Nepal and possibly up to Sikkim in the east. They also breed in the hills of central India and in the Western Ghats south to Karnataka. They migrate to all parts of peninsular India and Sri Lanka in winter. Exhausted birds may turn up inside homes. They are rare in the drier regions of India. The clutch is four to five eggs which are very glossy white and spherical with s